GLAM/Newsletter/November 2017/Contents/Wikidata report
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Wikidata report
Onwards and Upwards
By Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing)
Grab a coffee and put your reading glasses on...
GLAM news
- The first content made specifically for Wikimedia projects in space has been added to Wikidata (see Special story)
- If you run any functionality on Wikimedia sites that uses queries to the Wikidata Query Service, please add it here (more information)
- The Aaron Swartz Fellowship at OSA, Budapest, Hungary, is open for applications (deadline Dec. 31). The second focus area of the fellowship may be of interest to Wikidata folks.
- A new version of Unicode CLDR was released, including data about languages from Wikidata
- Wikidata training material and sample SPARQL queries
- Q43649390 is an item about our concept of "QID"s
Further reading and viewing
- Well structured political data for the whole world: impossible utopia, or Wikidata at its best?
- Spatial-based Topic Modelling using Wikidata Knowledge Base (in Wikidata as Q43662744)
- "Turning a historical book into a data set"
- "Creating Wikipedia articles from research data"
- Monitoring changes to Wikidata pages of your interest
- Proposal to add some order and structure to the various bibliographic corpora we currently have in Wikidata (mailing list post)
- Wikidata as authority linking hub: Connecting RePEc and GND researcher identifiers by Joachim Neubert
- Importing data into Wikidata - Current challenges and ideas future development by Navino Evans
- The Wikidata map in November 2017 and what changed during the last four months, by Addshore
- Wikidata coverage for 'place' in OpenStreetMap (as of October 2017)
- Using the Digital to Engage Archival Radio Collections: Part II (Wikidata Workshop), Washington, D.C., 2 November 2017
- Locating IMDB IDs of movies in the Internet Archive using Wikidata
- Review of the WikidataCon by Sean McBirnie (Histropedia)
- Blogpost on workflow co-documentation with community members during the WikidataCon
- Visualising Wikidata on Interactive Timelines using HistropediaJS
- Wikidata: A growing community behind open data
- Wikipedia Weekly audio podcast coverage of Wikidata:
- Completeness and the Age of Abundance of free tools, in Basque
- Report about the first WikidataCon in Hungarian
- Report of the WikidataCon 2017 in German
- Report about the 2017 WikidataCon in Polish, by Yarl
- Report about WikidataCon 2017 for WMAM community in Armenian, by Kareyac
- Cleaning BNF identifier in Wikidata (in French)
Tech developments
- You can now vote for your favourite proposals on the Community Wishlist Survey. The voting phase is open until December 10th.
- Wikidata will get dedicated database resources, and go read-only for 30 minutes on 9 January 2018 (phabricator:T181645)
- OpenRefine 2.8 was released. Adding columns from Wikidata and importing Wikitables is now possible.
- Improved the threshold for ORES on Wikidata (phabricator:T180450)
- Improved size of the diff that we sent to Wikipedia and co for changes happening on Wikidata. This is one more needed step towards only showing meaningful edits in the watchlists and recent changes there. (phabricator:T113468)
- Result views in the Wikidata Query Service UI can now be configured with options (phabricator:T155973, Special:Diff/580233265/596922582)
- RDF exports can handle entity references to foreign Wikibase repositories now, needed for Structured Data on Commons (phabricator:T161592)
- A breaking change to the wbcheckconstraints API output format was announced
- Mix'n'match now shows for a catalog which user originally imported it and if it is updated regularly (example)
- Mix-n-Match: Large Catalogs
- New tools by Magnus:
- Wikidata SPARQL Recent Changes - get diffs for all items matching a SPARQL query, for a date range
- WD edit stats - get edit stats for all items matching a SPARQL query
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
New GLAM-related properties
- hydraulic head
- mean age
- Shirat Nashim person ID
- HAL author ID
- Thibaudeau classification
- Argentine Senate member ID
- Argentine Chamber of Deputies ID
- Coinage of the Roman Republic Online ID
- Internet Off-Broadway Database ID
- Discography of American Historical Recordings ID
- Dutch Cemetery in Chinsurah ID
- Diccionario biográfico español ID
- Kaitai Struct format gallery ID
- Ecole des chartes thesis abstract ID
- Unified Astronomy Thesaurus ID
- Rush Parliamentary Archive ID
- Melon artist ID
- Humble Store ID
- Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Accused witch ID
- INDUCKS character ID
- INDUCKS publication ID
- INDUCKS creator ID
- INDUCKS publisher ID
- INDUCKS story ID
- INDUCKS issue ID
- INDUCKS miniseries ID
- Google Play developer ID
- Camera Decision ID
- COAM architect ID
- Isidore ID
- Xenopus Anatomical Ontology ID
- NACE code
- Microsoft Store artist ID
- family relationship degree
- IAFD male performer ID
- Formal Public Identifier
- National Monuments of Namibia Site Reference
- vertical depth
- Scottish Cemetery Kolkata ID
- Africultures movie ID
- Africultures person ID
- Prisma ID
- ctext work ID
- Melon album ID
- payload mass
- SUNCAT ID
- Radio Radicale person ID
- Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Person ID
- MuIS ID
- ABA bird ID
- UK Parliament thesaurus ID
- REGINE water system number
- Douban movie ID
- Bangladesh administrative division code
- ChinesePosters artist ID
- Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Trial ID
- Czech Street ID
- EUTA person ID
- EUTA theatre ID
- EThOS thesis ID
- Spider Ontology ID
- Collective Biographies of Women ID
- IBTrACS cyclone ID
- has listed ingredient
- sexually homologous with
- ARLIMA ID
- CNRS research group ID
- Everyone Remembered ID
- mountain range
- RA Collections ID
- ICRC PoW ID
- FAI ID
- SNCZI-IPE dam ID
- Art Museum of Estonia artist ID
- Art Museum of Estonia artwork ID
- electoral district number
- awarded for period
- BTO five-letter code
- SNCZI-IPE reservoir ID
- BPH journal ID
- West Australian Football League player ID
- SS KL Auschwitz Garrison ID
- Merchant Category Code
- Norwegian historical register of persons ID
- HTML entity
- Tidal artist ID
- Tidal album ID
- Tidal track ID
- Tidal video ID
- Berlinische Galerie artist ID
- Städel Museum artist ID
- Kulturelles Erbe Köln object ID
- Accademia della Crusca ID
- type foundry
- Argentinian Historic Heritage ID
- Dreadnought Project page
- Atomic Heritage Foundation ID
- National Inventory of Canadian Military Memorials ID
- Mountain Project ID
- arXiv author ID
- post town
- NIOSH Publication Number
- FAPESP institution ID
- FAPESP researcher ID
- Lives of WWI ID
- date of burial or cremation
- National Film Board of Canada movie ID
- Swedish Musical Heritage composer ID
- set designer
You are invited to comment on all open property proposals.
November 2017
- Australia and New Zealand report
- Brazil report
- Côte d'Ivoire report
- Czech Republic report
- Estonia report
- France report
- Germany report
- Ireland report
- Macedonia report
- Netherlands report
- Serbia report
- Spain report
- Sweden report
- Tunisia report
- UK report
- Ukraine report
- USA report
- Special story
- Wikidata report
- WMF GLAM report
- Calendar
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